That's the most embarrassing non-remaster of all time. It's kind of crazy that they gave it away on PC yet are charging the full premium price for the console version..

Aldo L

ok ill just put the brightness up on my monitor

Farmerfrugal

lighting, shadows, foliage, draw distance, and water are better. the textures are a slight upgrade but it's nothing drastic. luckily it's 64bit instead of 32bit so the mods will be significantly better and probably way more optimized for SSE. i still love it though!

Ser Garlan Tyrell

They should have just incorporated some of the best mods into the game as standard and called it a day and people would have loved it.

Brannon H

Where is my Oblivion remaster???

Hotshots2890

so they gave you a game with Shaders updated from 2.0 to 4.0... GG 200% profit on the same game

Nuclear Shadowscale

I'm so bad at noticing the differences in these videos, the only thing that stood out to me was the change in contrast.

Bruno Jorge

Lets be honest, besides the new lighting effects and better performance the game still looks like shit! Skyrim is one of the best games ever made but it needs mods to look really good. Bethesda thanks but modders do a better job when it comes to remaster your games!

itzJKB

it's a waste of time to release the remastered on PC

Sergio Cabrera

Got this for free for having all the DLCs and Base Game on PC. If anything, this remaster provides a new foundation for Mods moving forward and less on improving the Skyrim experience since Nexus and Steam Workshop already have tons of mods that do that already.

T0m My

Definitely seems like they should of done Oblivion and then maybe Skyrim on the next generation. Xbox Scorpio maybe

Scyllaya

I think what's more important is that the game is much more stable now and the framerates are also significantly better everywhere. Also, it runs on 64x.e.g. I had issues with Skyrim in Win 10, but those crashes and performance issues will no longer be there. Now we will be able to add more mods without risking performance as well. And hey, new creation kit. This is anything but useless, especially since it's free for PC, so why complain?

Jonathan Manning

Damn the difference at 2:18 is actually huge

Venom 007

Changing the lighting in the game could be considered a remaster now?

FreelanceXD

The difference is a lot more noticeable in person, however, still insignificant.

Thank God my friend is a sucker and bought and game shared this over priced game with me. I got more important things to buy like Final Fantasy XV which is a definite Game of the Year contender this year.

DAY-V Entertainment™

I would easily forgive if there was no extra quests but I was at least expecting a change in the lip syncing.

Hardly deserving of the Remastered title more like Skyrim console cash grab edition.

charvelgtrs

Obviously the current gen consoles will be seeing a bigger boost with the remasters compared to the PS3/360 vs the PC version compared to the original PC release.

ofek 1

It looks the same, bethesda drones will buy it anyway

Lucian Leesonja

I can download free mods of the steam workshop and get a better graphical improvement.

Mufasa the lion

It looks like the only things they changed are the brightness and the trees...

InkOnTube

The only real advantage of remaster is that now we don't have limit for mods and slightly better loading times. It is such a lazy remaster. They could use better models for people and hair. Now I must search again for textures on Nexux mods for better experience. Bethesda is a giant, should not do things so poorly.

0002niarDneK

So, we on PC get a more stable version of Skyrim with an easy porting thing for old mods more potential for future mods. For free. Why are people complaining, again?

Ankit Sharma

keeping aside all the hate call of duty is getting....developers should learn from MW remaster as to how a remaster should be done....I see a lot of money grabbing remasters these days

CDABLUE

Basically if you've played it and did the whole "I spent my whole life on this game man" phase then really you don't need to get it maybe if you're a console and want mods. But if you've never played at all ever......what are you still doing reading this? Go get this now!

Syler82

we need a brand new skyrim no this mediocre remastered crap

F34RDSoldier805

Not worth the price for a game I've already played the hell out of.

Ed

Let's just change the color pallet, hopefully nobody notices.

Guhsteh

The difference is negligible lol..

Grenet

i like the original better....

Kadmon Jr.

Veteran Skyrim players: you just got a free game but not really worth itNew players: just get the original and mod it, it'll look and run better

Juan Pablo Chalave

so, it's skyrim with instagram filters

K-Watte

The only difference I've seen is higher resolution, brighter saturation, more diverse lighting, forgetable depth of field, and higher draw distance. Which in my book is AMAZING for consoles 😂! This remaster was clearly meant for the console crowd, since PC can mod the graphics and such.

Millor

They really should have worked a lot more on the textures. They barely did anything to them at all.

Space Bud95

So many people saying the Special Edition is a waste of money and that there's no difference..For starters there's a clear difference in terms of rendering capability. Better lighting/shadows, better antialiasing, more ground clutter, sharper textures, etc.And for whatever reason the people who say how shit the game is tend to ignore mentioning the best part about it.. IT'S 64 BIT!!For those who don't know what that means.. 64 bit basically means the game has access to more memory. in the original version the game was limited to using about 4GB of RAM..Now that limitation is gone the game can have a lot more going on without crashing. It also means modders can make more substantial mods than before. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm super keen on the idea of large scale battles between the Imperials and Stormcloaks or some huge Daedric invasions :D

kilo365days

take the original and download some texture mods theirs your special edition lol

Cory in the Maus

Better off downloading higher res textures from the workshop lmao.

BlizzardKhaos

Great graphics, but nit as great as the graphics you get from mods

Soviet Ninja

should I get Skyrim or xv2

Márton Pajer

these are just light changes, and more nature -.-

Haschwell

So basically its slightly more colorful? Money well spent. I mean its not like you could adjust those yourself or anything.

Elitist Prince Dizzy

there's plenty of MODS that put this remaster to shame but then again I understand Bethestha not upgrading this game even more due to the game being released on consoles

FyreMagyk67

I think it looks rather nice but we should forget that this was all more a technical remaster over graphical. Besides, it's hard not to appreciate the little things. The foliage looks softer, there isn't that weird flickering in the distance, and more which all adds up in the end. Besides that, the upgrade to 64bit is reeeeaaalll nice! I also got it for free so my opinion doesn't matter anyway, right?

Karltroid

they should have done a remaster of an old elder scrolls game that actually needs remastering.. not one that came out 6 yrs ago..

Stephen Granville

Man. I kinda like the look of the original more haha.

Zephyr

I see very little difference, only colours are darker/more vivid in Remastered

KobraKira HD

To those that think this remaster has no major differences, here's what I noticed (I play on PC btw):They added Volumetric lighting, volumetric fog, temporal anti-aliasing, SSAO, Screen space reflections, extra vegetation, better shadow quality, new water shaders, Extended draw distance, 64-bit (original was 32-bit), and DX11 to the game. Yes you could mod the original with those effects, but having a 64-bit version of Skyrim gives modders extra stability and more flexibility than the original version. And because of that, this version runs more stable than the original. Plus it's free for those that already own it (for Steam users).This is actually a fairly big upgrade from the default Skyrim TBH.

Gabriel Oliveira

The effects are prety better. But i think Bethesda need to make like the mods for original, a real graphics improve.

UHIS

for all the people on pc bashing the fact that the graphics are shit (wich they are) please be happy, you got a 64bit executable. wich makes it so you can use almost all of your ram instead of 4gb combined for papyrus and mods. basicly you will be able to mod this even harder (when all the good mods get ported anyway). also performance seems to be drasticly improved after watching Gophers video.Edit to all the peeps calling it moneygrabbing, are you serious? every guy who will play skyrim on pc at this day has all dlc and gets it for free so they really will only make money on the console version